Chapter 1 - Finally...
... got this blog up and running after meaning to do so for so long. Even though this is my first blog entry I’m not going to write about something I want to write about but rather something I was told to write about. The reason for doing so is because we’re given task every week that require discussing on a certain topic, how you do so is up to your style of writing s long as the topic is touched upon.
This week’s task includes choosing a blog and writing a bit about it whilst also expressing your feelings on blogs in general.
The blog I choose was done by a bloke called John and can be found here à http://ohdearmybrainisleaking.blogspot.com/ . After reading a choice of seven this blog entry stood out to me mainly because of the title. Now for me that’s one of the main grasping points as a reader even though it would seem unfair not to read the rest just because they didn’t have a catchy title.
John here generally talks about his next blog entry, topics he’s started writing about and not finished or topics that are finished and he’s going to post up next. You can obviously tell this guys likes his blogs J…it’s almost as if he’s got things planned and knows what order to make posts in so you can see he’s enthusiastic and posts quite often as a couple of times a week. It’s interesting to know that people prepare themselves for a small thing like a simple blog entry, you find people fall in to two types of categories and they are i) people why can write and write without thinking twice about what they’ve wrote and ii) people who have to plan they’re conversations and make sure they say what they have to say exactly the way they want to say it. You may find that you start of as ii) and then once your comfortable with the whole blogg thing you can write and it all flows.
I perceive blogs to be more personal rather than objective and by saying personal I don’t only just mean how the writer discusses something personal or something that has happened to them over the last week but also how the style of writing and language used can portray their mental side. For me blogs are similar to forums, not nearly the same, but similar and this is because it’s all you and that means you can write about anything that comes in to your head or something that just happened to you recently or a topic that makes you want to get other peoples opinions on, it literally draws out an image in your head portraying the writer and some people feel more comfortable in this environment. It’s easier to talk about a subject, whether it’s personal or general, when the person you might be talking to is not there. Some people find it easier to write what you got to say on paper and make sure it sounds right the first time because rather than trying to explain something and it saying it the way you want it after a few attempts.
I see myself as a perfectionist, now as funny as that might seem I don’t mean anything along the lines of my posts or blogs are the best …I actually mean when I write I personally want the blogg to sound just right, if something doesn’t sound right I’ll go back a hundred times until I find something that fits ‘perfectly’. Making a blogg is quite simple but at the end of the day the blogg isn’t really there for you it’s for others to read up and comment on and you want to make sure the reader is interested in what you have to say so unless you put down what the reader wants to hear or write it the way you wanted to express yourself, you won’t be pleased and that’s what some people want, to express their feelings and make the reader intrigued by their thoughts.
After reading what I just wrote it kind of sounded like I just wrote a short essay and I definitely didn’t want to do that so I guess this makes me a hypocrite? Well like I said this is my first blog entry and I have been given guidelines as to what I’m supposed to be writing about so I have tried to keep it clear so my points and views are made so it’s easy for people to see that I’ve included certain areas of discussion rather than for instance writing about a game I really love playing. Saying that ill end today’s blog entry and think I might just make an essay type enjoyable post on the game I really love playing ‘World of Warcraft’ so if anyone plays that they’d appreciate the gesture and for those who haven’t played it…prepare to be intrigued.
This week’s task includes choosing a blog and writing a bit about it whilst also expressing your feelings on blogs in general.
The blog I choose was done by a bloke called John and can be found here à http://ohdearmybrainisleaking.blogspot.com/ . After reading a choice of seven this blog entry stood out to me mainly because of the title. Now for me that’s one of the main grasping points as a reader even though it would seem unfair not to read the rest just because they didn’t have a catchy title.
John here generally talks about his next blog entry, topics he’s started writing about and not finished or topics that are finished and he’s going to post up next. You can obviously tell this guys likes his blogs J…it’s almost as if he’s got things planned and knows what order to make posts in so you can see he’s enthusiastic and posts quite often as a couple of times a week. It’s interesting to know that people prepare themselves for a small thing like a simple blog entry, you find people fall in to two types of categories and they are i) people why can write and write without thinking twice about what they’ve wrote and ii) people who have to plan they’re conversations and make sure they say what they have to say exactly the way they want to say it. You may find that you start of as ii) and then once your comfortable with the whole blogg thing you can write and it all flows.
I perceive blogs to be more personal rather than objective and by saying personal I don’t only just mean how the writer discusses something personal or something that has happened to them over the last week but also how the style of writing and language used can portray their mental side. For me blogs are similar to forums, not nearly the same, but similar and this is because it’s all you and that means you can write about anything that comes in to your head or something that just happened to you recently or a topic that makes you want to get other peoples opinions on, it literally draws out an image in your head portraying the writer and some people feel more comfortable in this environment. It’s easier to talk about a subject, whether it’s personal or general, when the person you might be talking to is not there. Some people find it easier to write what you got to say on paper and make sure it sounds right the first time because rather than trying to explain something and it saying it the way you want it after a few attempts.
I see myself as a perfectionist, now as funny as that might seem I don’t mean anything along the lines of my posts or blogs are the best …I actually mean when I write I personally want the blogg to sound just right, if something doesn’t sound right I’ll go back a hundred times until I find something that fits ‘perfectly’. Making a blogg is quite simple but at the end of the day the blogg isn’t really there for you it’s for others to read up and comment on and you want to make sure the reader is interested in what you have to say so unless you put down what the reader wants to hear or write it the way you wanted to express yourself, you won’t be pleased and that’s what some people want, to express their feelings and make the reader intrigued by their thoughts.
After reading what I just wrote it kind of sounded like I just wrote a short essay and I definitely didn’t want to do that so I guess this makes me a hypocrite? Well like I said this is my first blog entry and I have been given guidelines as to what I’m supposed to be writing about so I have tried to keep it clear so my points and views are made so it’s easy for people to see that I’ve included certain areas of discussion rather than for instance writing about a game I really love playing. Saying that ill end today’s blog entry and think I might just make an essay type enjoyable post on the game I really love playing ‘World of Warcraft’ so if anyone plays that they’d appreciate the gesture and for those who haven’t played it…prepare to be intrigued.
posted by Taz at Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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